Article 4T1FP Wildlife corridors to save Borneo elephants – in pictures

Wildlife corridors to save Borneo elephants – in pictures

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Chris J Ratcliffe/WWF-UK
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Malaysia and Indonesia are home to the oldest jungles in the world and produce more than 85% of the world's palm oil. However, cultivation and production of the oil have caused deforestation, pollution, land degradation and human-wildlife conflict.

Deforestation in Malaysia and Indonesia has endangered the Borneo elephant, which depends on forest connectivity to survive, by isolating it from large foraging grounds. Now, some plantations are working with WWF-Malaysia to create ecological corridors to enable the animals to travel between forest patches

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